It was clear in this clip what a Bully Billo is.

I had a discussion with a wingnut and had the same argument thrown at me, you can't hold limbuagh, hannity or antof the others accountable because they are just commentators.
That line must have been on the weekly republican talking points email.

I prefer hatful men, otherwise we're stuck with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg

I'm sorry Barack but going on Bill O's show was a mistake. Bill talked to you like you were his pool attendant. That was all he needed to do - behave towards you like he was your superior and he would win.

He did that.

You're going to lose this election. And I am very disappointed.

FoxNews biased? Never! I bet the next you're gonna say is that Karl Rove is campaign manager for John Bush..I mean John McCain.

I'd pay good money to see a video of BillO get his ***** ***** in.

God, O'Reilly's such a putz.

Obama may have served on a city commission for the Mayor of Chicago with Bill Ayers, but unlike Sarah Palin, he never openly declared his affinity with a traitorous anti-American movement to bust up the United States like she's done with the Alaskan Independence Party, whose founder got murdered in a plastic explosives deal 'gone wrong'.

Obama was actually laughing at Oreilly while having to ask him to calm down during their interview on Monday. Oreilly is such a loser.

Fox News biased? Humm, Do any of you have one example of a "Commentator" of Fox that had an interview of McCain or any other Republican with that much lack of respect? He never let Obama finish a sentence for crying out loud! I have seen 3 interviews on Fox by Hannity and Orally and McCain was given total softballs. They laughed with him and NEVER followed up a question.
They have mostly former Bush felons working there and the man who runs Fox is former Republicon campaign manager.

I'm sorry but I just couldn't watch more than 2 minutes. For Obama to put himself in the position of being lectured to by a facist, anti-intellectual bully like O'Reilly is just plain wrong. This interview was a mistake and Obama should have never done it.

You cannot attack FOX and then legitimize them by appearing on their show.

Who is the media IDIOT that is advising this campaign?!?!

If Obama wins this election, Fox news can say goodbye to having access into the White House press briefing room.

What's next? A warm & fuzzy with Rush Limbaugh?

I'm sorry liberalNmoderation...I don't agree. There is NO upside. If he doesn't go on...the ARGUMENT is that he is a coward...and you can countermand that.

You can't fight the images from the interview.

Why do you think Palin isn't giving interviews? Why do you think the American Cadaver hasn't appeared on Countdown?

If anyone talked to me the way Oreilly is in this clip I would have either walked out or punched him in his rotten potato face! But, I guess this is why Obama would be a good president - he wouldn't lose his cool in completely hostile territory.

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Liberal AND Proud @ 25:

I'm sorry liberalNmoderation...I don't agree. There is NO upside. If he doesn't go on...the ARGUMENT is that he is a coward...and you can countermand that.

You can't fight the images from the interview.

Why do you think Palin isn't giving interviews? Why do you think the American Cadaver hasn't appeared on Countdown?

Well...LnP...we all know why McBain and Sarah Wolfslayer won't give interviews to anyone but conservatively biased media outlets.
They know they would get picked apart by anyone like Olbermann or Maddow.
I think in the end...Obama will make BOR look a fool.

Lee @ 29:

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You, Lee are a total idiot if you actually believe the nonsense you just posted.

What i friggin hate about the BillO is his tone and demeanor toward Obama...Completely confrontational and disrespectful.. Lets see is Bill gives the same higher-than-mighty bravado when he eventually interviews Palin or McCain. Doubtful, he'll likely lap her/his ass up one side and down the other like all of the FoxNews clowns!

Again, this is brilliant. Of course there's a reason to go on O'Reilly. First, there are a good many swing voters who watch O'Reilly. Second, it gives you a chance to put some English on O'Reilly's commentary about your campaign.

O'Reilly is a blowhard who is insecure about his legitimacy and eager to sell the "fair and balanced" party line.

Obama could attack him, but that would be a counterproductive waste of time for a candidate. That's what Keith Olbermann is for.

Obama could ignore him, but that leaves O'Reilly alone to own the Obama narrative on FOX.

Or Obama can flatter him, and then O'Reilly will keep it to a little badinage.

At the end of the day, however, what you get is a FOX audience seeing Papa Bear and Obama chatting cordially (believe me, this interview is a Merchant Ivory period costume drama compared to the rest of FOX's lineup)

So, FOX watchers who are eager to believe the "fair and balanced" bullshit will take the secret-muslim-terrorist-fist-jab cartoon down a notch or two.

BillO gets what BillO loves most: to puff himself up as the big he-man who can land the big fish.

There's no game for Obama in picking a fight with FOX. Diplomacy isn't just for foreign enemies.

Orally said there's nothing worse than DailyKos.
To test that, I've just gone to 2 websites.
At the top of the Dailykos mainpage,there's a post on "The truth about those scary earmarks" and an ad about fuel conservation.
At the top of Stormfront's homepage, there's a logo for "white pride worldwide" and mention of an upcoming talk with David Duke.
So, is Bill Orally saying her prefers white supremacists to liberals?
Remember, he said there's no one worse than the Dailykos people. I can only conclude he would prefer the company of white supremacists.

jharp @ 24:

Oreilly is a fucking jackass asshole unamerican prick.

Indeed he is!
As is Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage/Weiner, Coulter, Scarborough....have I left anyone off the list of treasonous assholes?

That's such bull...."they are only commentators".
They are on f%$# TV and most Repug voters only get there "news" from TV and Fox at that.

ysbaddaden @ 38:

8 Ali Says: I just can’t watch the clip. I start screaming at O’Reilly. Kudos to Obama for keeping his cool. My God, OReilly is such a vile hypocritical liar. Absolutely detestable human being. Is he human?

I think he's like that guy in Men In Black, where if you remove his face there's a tiny space dude in a cockpit.

He's not that cool...behind his face is a giant asshole.

Billo the Clown showed himself to be the ill-informed, self-obsessed bully that he has always been. Senator Obama, on the other hand conducted himself gracefully and with class and managed to keep a cool head in the face of Billo's bullying. The senator looked "presidential". If it were me sitting in Billo's hot seat, it would have been all I could do to keep from punching the dumb sonofabitch.

As for a tactic to take away from this little session, why doesn't the Obama campaign contrast the fact that the Senator wasn't afraid to sit down with O'Reilly with the fact that media darling Palin won't subject herself to any unscripted press scrutiny? (Charlie Gibson doesn't count.) Anyone who's afraid to go out in front of the press is not real. Period. That assertion needs to be repeated and repeated and repeated...

This ain't brain surgery.

Still confused how oreilly has a show at all, but Obama does well. Must have been a challenge for billo to have to talk to someone he couldn't physically threaten. But I'm still confused why Obama would even talk to this traitor to American ideals and character.
The Countdown website, just might possibly be the worst on the internet. It rarely plays the item i select from the menu on the left and always plays the ads flawlessly of course. If this persists much longer I'm going to start sending notes to their advertisers that I will not purchase their products. The only reason i go their at all is to see some intelligent questions asked. Too bad Keith can't get some of those smarts to rub off on the webmaster there. Stoppit with the bells and whistles already and make something that works.

JasonS @ 35:

Again, this is brilliant. Of course there's a reason to go on O'Reilly. First, there are a good many swing voters who watch O'Reilly. Second, it gives you a chance to put some English on O'Reilly's commentary about your campaign.

O'Reilly is a blowhard who is insecure about his legitimacy and eager to sell the "fair and balanced" party line.

Obama could attack him, but that would be a counterproductive waste of time for a candidate. That's what Keith Olbermann is for.

Obama could ignore him, but that leaves O'Reilly alone to own the Obama narrative on FOX.

Or Obama can flatter him, and then O'Reilly will keep it to a little badinage.

At the end of the day, however, what you get is a FOX audience seeing Papa Bear and Obama chatting cordially (believe me, this interview is a Merchant Ivory period costume drama compared to the rest of FOX's lineup)

So, FOX watchers who are eager to believe the "fair and balanced" bullshit will take the secret-muslim-terrorist-fist-jab cartoon down a notch or two.

BillO gets what BillO loves most: to puff himself up as the big he-man who can land the big fish.

There's no game for Obama in picking a fight with FOX. Diplomacy isn't just for foreign enemies.

That's what I been screamin...you just said it better than I could.
Thanks!

ShotoJamf @ 45:

Billo the Clown showed himself to be the ill-informed, self-obsessed bully that he has always been. Senator Obama, on the other hand conducted himself gracefully and with class and managed to keep a cool head in the face of Billo's bullying. The senator looked "presidential". If it were me sitting in Billo's hot seat, it would have been all I could do to keep from punching the dumb sonofabitch.

As for a tactic to take away from this little session, why doesn't the Obama campaign contrast the fact that the Senator wasn't afraid to sit down with O'Reilly with the fact that media darling Palin won't subject herself to any unscripted press scrutiny? (Charlie Gibson doesn't count.) Anyone who's afraid to go out in front of the press is not real. Period. That assertion needs to be repeated and repeated and repeated...

This ain't brain surgery.

YES!!!!
This isn't brain science! It's Rocket SURGERY!

constituent @ 36:

OT forgive me but take aminute and vote on this ridiculous lipstick pig bs on msnbc

Jesus H. Christ! And these are the guys who have a too heavy 'liberal bias'?!!
Fucking hell that's insulting!

"Do you think Sen. Barack Obama went too far with his 'lipstick on a pig' remark?"

"Yes, he has crossed the line this time." - WTF.. "this time".. implying that he's been close to doing it before.. And crossing the line for WHAT? We all KNOW it was a perfectly innocent use of a common idiom.

"No, this is just part of the rough-and-tumble of political campaigning." - Implying that Obama was STILL WRONG, yet that it's acceptable.

What happened to the "No, it's all bullshit!" option?!

ysbaddaden @ 47:

39 liberalNmoderation Says: jharp @ 24:

Oreilly is a fucking jackass asshole unamerican prick.

Indeed he is!
As is Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage/Weiner, Coulter, Scarborough….have I left anyone off the list of treasonous assholes?

Malkin?

She's assholier than thou.

Oh yeah...so full of hate, that malkin character...gonna rupture her spleen.

Black_Knight @ 12:

The match we need to see is Bill Clinton verses Bill O'Reilly. Clinton will call him out on some of his bullshit, and O'Reilly will counter with Volume.

The only person that can really handle Bill is Phil Donohue. Check it out. Phil make O'Reilly look like the fool he is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctlmholr45c&NR=1

I can't even believe how RUDE bill o'reilly has been to Obama. It's disgusting.

Oreilly is a fucking jackass asshole unamerican prick.

And I hope God rots his cock off.

As for O'Reilly not defending Hannity, it's not a surprise. It wouldn't surprise me if those two hated each other. They would rather point out each other's faults than their own.

liberalNmoderation:

And, of course, no hatred in your post...right?

At first I thought him going on the Factor was a bad idea, but the more I think about it, the smarter it seems. If you're going to vote for Obama, you don't care what Bill O'Reilly has to say. And more than likely, you won't even watch the interview. But he might just get a hold of a few thousand yahoos who watch O'Reilly and change their minds. Maybe not. But I don't think it'll hurt him

Oh, almost forgot. DO IT LIVE!

Alexdem:

I felt the same when I saw the way the questions were framed; they both meant he was wrong.

Why aren’t you reporting on the Hitler style socialism of Barack Obama? How he has hundreds of worshipers waiting in the wings to do his bidding? THIS IS FRIGHTENING!

Hitler tried to use force and extortion against the U.S. media also and then whinned in a ‘look what the meanies are trying to do us’ type of idea. He tried to use the United States media campaign to gain credibility for his own cause. JUST LIKE OBAMA IS DOING!

Shocking Obama / Hitler Youth
VIDEO : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys1I99h76w0

Hitler wanted to occupy the minds of the young in Nazi Germany JUST LIKE OBAMA!

Movements for youngsters were part of German culture and the Hitler Youth had been created in the 1920’s. By 1933 its membership stood at 100,000. After Hitler came to power, all other youth movements were abolished and as a result the Hitler Youth grew quickly. In 1936, the figure stood at 4 million members. In 1936, it became all but compulsory to join the Hitler Youth. Youths could avoid doing any active service if they paid their subscription but this became all but impossible after 1939.

The Hitler Youth catered for 10 to 18 year olds. There were separate organisations for boys and girls. The task of the boys section was to prepare the boys for military service. For girls, the organisation prepared them for motherhood.

After March 1939 every child above ten up to eighteen was forced to join. If they did not, parents could be held responsible (fines, arrest). Often there were loopholes, though, because somehow children cheated — on the Hitler Jugend (HJ) elders — or parents moved somewhere else with them or they just did not join and after repeated inquiries by HJ authorities which were not answered by parent or child the HJ gave up. Claimed “conscientious objector” status held no sway, was not legal and not accepted. Most kids at ten wanted to join anyway because of peer pressure.

Why did Hitler create the Hitler Youth?

He was persuaded by his cronies before 1933 (when he took power) that in order for the Party and the National Socialist movement to continue and survive, they needed recruits. Those had to be reared in good time and systematically.

WHY IS OBAMA CREATING OBAMA YOUTH?? THIS IS SCAREY!!!

bor...the biggest pig (without lipstick) in this country. He should be the vp running mate for mcAncient...they both have the same temperment and bor would teach him to to nail down a lie.....mcSame can't even do it according to script.

You completely miss the Rovian tactics yet again. Typical progressive. Just because he made one little tiny point about Hannity, doesn't undo the rest of the segment. Anyone who watched that saw Obama be defensive and seem like a liar when asked about his supposed right wing friends.

You are living in your own heavily biased world if you think Obama did good. Anyone who doesn't know the truth about Obama/McCain came away thinking Obama has ties to terrorism and far left nutjobs.

That's why we lose every time. People like you extoll Obama for taking the high road and getting in some small jab most people didn't notice. They don't know what DKOS is. All they heard were the words "Chaos" & "Far left" and that Obama was supported by said groups.

KNOW WHO THE AUDIENCE IS BEFORE YOU MAKE STATEMENTS ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MESSAGE!!!

He could have said I'm not being lectured to on character by a man who sexually harrased his producer, lied about our troops at Malmady, and won't admit he's wrong when shown the proof, etc... Obama should have gone in with dates & quotes at his disposal to refute O'Reilly's charge that they haven't unfairly smeared and attacked him. KNOW YOUR ENEMY & OBAMA FAILED TO RECOGNIZE O'REILLY IS THE ENEMY!!!

Forget the rest, Obama was a complete tool for not at least having references to when they lied about and smeared him. To not be prepared with at least that much made him seem completely incompetent. Or why not info about who John McCain is friends with. Lobbyists working for foreign interests, his ties to Charles Keating, his ties to Vicky Isseman, his ties to Jerry Falwell & Fallwel's hateful Katrina comments.

Fox viewers didn't see a confident leader call for change we can believe in. They saw a weak, demure, & rattled man take it from O'Reilly.

Until you stop viewing the world through your progressively stained rose colored glasses, we are doomed to take it in the ass from them again. This interview was an abomination.

54 dennis Says: I agree, Obama did do well in this interview, and O’Reilly did a nice job interviewing him too.

If Kerry had done the same thing he might’ve been the President right now.

Olbermann’s interview with Obama was pure milquetoast, and his ratings reflected it.

Even if McCain and Sarah America thought Olbermann would treat them with the same fawning he gave Obama, they’d still pass because of the low market share exposure they’d get. Just not worth taking her off the campaign trail at this point.

Lemme guess-troll for the GOP?

JC

While I don't share your "progressive" animosity, you points as well taken.

Jesse! @ 61:

I can't even believe how RUDE bill o'reilly has been to Obama. It's disgusting.

I couldn't agree more: it is disgusting.
Imagine McCain going on Keith Olbermann's show and being constantly interrupted and sneered at like this.

Kitty @ 27:

If anyone talked to me the way Oreilly is in this clip I would have either walked out or punched him in his rotten potato face! But, I guess this is why Obama would be a good president - he wouldn't lose his cool in completely hostile territory.

You are right there Kitty. Have you noticed that the Repub marching order is to interrupt as often as you can, particularly if an effective point is being made. I want to hear everything they have to say, but I wish the moderators would insist that others could finish their sentence. Watch how often they do it.
Nancy Pfot.. is doing it right now.

JC

While I don’t share your “progressive” animosity, you points as well taken.

Or, in English...your points are well taken.

I was against the idea at first but I think it made him seem even more Presidential to smile at such a pathetic would-be bully.

Hey, that was a good idea when people thought they could negotiate with Hitler, wasn't it?

Obama was in charge. It helps to be as tall as O'LIElly because it takes away the intimidation factor. O'LIElly certainly could not defend Shammity. Media Matters would have toasted his ass.

I admire Obama for trying to reach out to the far right but O'Reilly is such a dishonest interviewer that I don't think that it is worth the effort. There is no discussion of ideas or issues in this segment, just a rapid fire list of guilt by association accusations that are designed to make Obama look bad regardless of how he responds to them. Obama should accept the fact that the Obama/Limbaugh crowd is not worth pursuing and concentrate on the electorate that is.

I can't watch FOX, but from the clips I've seen, I think Obama did O.K. Bill did not show him any respect, but I don't imagine he expected any.
I am afraid Obama is going to lose this election. If I hear him say one more time that the American people are smarter than that, I am going to scream. The fact is that they are not and everybody knows it.
The Republicans are just better at the low road than the Dems(who seem to think the American people are smart).

89 ysbaddaden Says:

83 BigIslandDave Says:

Curiosity go the better of me. I broke down and watched.

Obama did very well.

God, O’Reilly is truly a miserable, execrable bastard.

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Dave’s not home man…

Did’ja mean excretable?

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I think Dave's right. Shit like O'LIElly must come out of someone's ass. He makes you want to hold your nose, wipe and then spray Lysol.

Still insufficiently forceful and blunt, but moving in the right direction.

O'Reilly should be in a mental institution. Even for Fox News, he's appalling.

Obama handles himself really well, though, which is a good sign.

Obama didn't do "well" in this interview, I've watched 2 hours of Fox over the last week. 1 hour and 40 minutes of it was "analysis" of the interview and how O'Reilly was such a straight shooting, no spin kinda guy asking tough questions while Obama squirmed. They played segments where Obama directly answered questions, and then had shills talk for 5 minutes about how slimy and slippery he was. The other 20 minutes were ads for the rest of the interview that's playing this week.

Obama going on this show was an absolute mistake, he should have shut them out. He tried to reason with this network, and he expected O'Reilly to show more respect to him than he would his butler. This kind of crap is a bigger mistake than any gaffe Obama has made, it legitimizes allllll of the bs Fox spouts about Obama because he simply didn't have the time or a clean 30 seconds of time to give any sort of coherent response. For the next two weeks, Fox will bring up all of the bs scandals they have, play these clips, and say Obama avoids the tough questions with his libbbbberal "associations".

It is the duty of this blog, and other blogs to hammer Obama on this mistake so we don't have any more of this crap before the election.

dennis @ 87:

pinkobait @ 80:

Jesse! @ 61:

I can't even believe how RUDE bill o'reilly has been to Obama. It's disgusting.

I couldn't agree more: it is disgusting.
Imagine McCain going on Keith Olbermann's show and being constantly interrupted and sneered at like this.

That is a tough one to try to imagine. I don't think I've ever seen Keith interview anyone with an opposing viewpoint. I'd be more worried about Keith than I would McCain.

McCain would probably have to console him at the end of the show.

I assume you do not see right wingers on Keith's show because right wingers despise him.
Conversely,he doesn't sneeringly goad people into going on his show less they be pronounced cowards.
However,were McCain to go on Olbermann's show I can't help but feel he would be treated with the same respect Keith extends to all his guests,as opposed to the disgraceful hateful cynical half truths Bill the Bully unloads on all Democrats(not republicans)that insist on putting themselves through his gauntlet.

This is making me cry and wanting to produce a "leave Barack alooooone" video. No, seriously. How can one man endorse so much hatred and be so uncivil to a guy who's obviously done more than his share for the community and who's playing fair and behaving graciously--NOT LIKE A REPUBLICAN JACKASS!

Dude, I thought I'd already seen all the crap Barack has to take. I wouldn't have the stamina to run for president ... what an amazing guy.

It's like a 12 year old is doing the interviewing, such base stuff .

A lot of cheap shot there. But Obama handled most of them well enough.

I don't think any presidential candidate in living memory has walked into as many partisan forums as Obama has in this election. The fact that he's came out looking good in most of them says something. Yes, Obama shouldn't give this moron a ratings bump, but compared to his appearance on Olbermann the other night, this was far more worthwile, at least from a viewers perspective. I guess that's why O'Reilly is still getting better ratings than Olbermann.

Obama has definately been saharper and more livelier in these segments than I've seen in any other interview. It seems confrontation works.

dennis @ 87:

pinkobait @ 80:

Jesse! @ 61:

I can't even believe how RUDE bill o'reilly has been to Obama. It's disgusting.

I couldn't agree more: it is disgusting.
Imagine McCain going on Keith Olbermann's show and being constantly interrupted and sneered at like this.

That is a tough one to try to imagine. I don't think I've ever seen Keith interview anyone with an opposing viewpoint. I'd be more worried about Keith than I would McCain.

McCain would probably have to console him at the end of the show.

Hum, nice right wing troll technique: defect the question to some asinine tangent.

Ironically, McCain has gone a few times to the DailyShow and he managed to make a complete ass of himself, one time he came unhinged... and when he tried to come back a later time to make it up he was creepy.

McCain is a idiot who can't think on his own, and when he is given time he comes up with the creepiest barmy remarks which can provide fodder for a milliard of postgraduate studies on the psychological underlying of a psychopath.

Which pretty much means that McCain is just like Boosh, but older, with cancer, and he is unable to raise his hands in the air like he just don't care when jamming with MC Rove.

So this is what you scumbag right trolls have come down to defend? In your hellish race to the bottom, your ilk has crossed the threshold of the pathetic and are now in the realm of the miserable.

Go back to the rock that you guys crawled from and stay there... ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

I like the Anonymous Liberal's idea that Obama should just be running straightforward ads with no music or big production values, where he just looks into the camera and tells it like it is. I think that's why he comes off so well (plus, he takes it to PapaBear instead of being bullied by him.

I saw this on the blog of Craig’s List founder, Craig Newmark, yesterday and thought it was a cool idea and worth passing along:

"Hey, this is a good example of genuine grassroots democracy:

ObamaTravel.org is a platform that connects volunteers who want to travel to a swing state with financial sponsors and swing state host families. It’s sort of a political hybrid of craigslist and Team-in-Training - volunteers post profiles and solicit sponsorship from their family and friends. Sponsors can see their donations in action by following the activities of their volunteers.

... and let's remember that "community organizing" is pure grassroots democracy."

O’Reilly’s television program is nothing more than a cheap side show, and he merely an egotistical assassin who obscenely panders to a segment of our population that is evidently too stupid to realize they are being played as chumps and to lazy to take the time to discover that this guy (a multimillionaire now because of them) fills their empty heads with hate and lies every night simply to make a buck.

Barak Obama is the duly nominated candidate of the Democratic party, and as such represents (if the current polls are correct) nearly one half of the voting population of this country. When Bill OReilly disrespects Mr. Obama he is (to paraphrase Steven Colbert) “Spitting in the face of everyone that voted for him.”

theWalrus @ 23:

What's next? A warm & fuzzy with Rush Limbaugh?

I think Rush Limbaugh is a great commentator for his party. He might in the end educate most of us. I know one thing about Limbaugh that he loves America and Israel.

Very erudite...
you boot me and then level a not so veiled threat.

And who, actually, is the enemy of the 1st amendment?

No matter...I will not be deterred from revealing your vitriol for what it is.

hey obama wtf are you doing on this ass hole's show. He keeps interrupting you. Progressives need to go hard against Murdoch. Why is nobody exposing Murdoch & co and their hate mongering.

Folks, you better decide who is going to keep America safe, before it is too late. If you bicker, we might end up with GWB's gestapo ruling or the famous martial law.

My analysis: Obama is interested in becoming the world leader. His speech in Germany resonates that he is out there to make the world one and globally he can be that president. On the other hand, Obama has not proved anything to the American people.

On the other hand, McCain has the experience and will lead us in tough fights with Russia, Syria, Iran, and the ME. The domestic issues are minor; they can be fixed compared to the foreign affairs.

Sen. Clinton did a much better job holding back the demagogue. Obama seemed like he was there to debate -- to have a frank discussion. That's not what Bull O'Really? is about.

Jeremy Glick explained it best after his interview. He said that O'Really? isn't there to debate. He's there to talk over and at you to make you slip up or angry. Once you realize that, it's easier to just calmly stick a knife in him, and make him angry instead. Once he blows up, the viewer's sympathy is yours.

It would have been much more interesting television if Obama would have cold cocked Old Liely bent him over the desk and then violated him with a bust of Ruppert Murdoch.

alien @ 124:

bill o'reilly is such a political HACK!

what kind of INTERVIEW is this?

it's totally ridiculous. Obama is doing the best job I've ever seen at combatting such a menace-to-truth, but why go on his show? Why give FOX NEWS the time of day? I say just do interviews with Chris Wallace if you have to go on Fox and just leave it at that. None of these ridiculous political commentator shows.

Dems, Libertarians, Greens, and all you others out there should black ball Faux Noise. Faux is nothing but an echo chamber anyway, why grant them credibility.

EZ @ 121:

Folks, you better decide who is going to keep America safe, before it is too late. If you bicker, we might end up with GWB's gestapo ruling or the famous martial law.

My analysis: Obama is interested in becoming the world leader. His speech in Germany resonates that he is out there to make the world one and globally he can be that president. On the other hand, Obama has not proved anything to the American people.

On the other hand, McCain has the experience and will lead us in tough fights with Russia, Syria, Iran, and the ME. The domestic issues are minor; they can be fixed compared to the foreign affairs.

Keeping any of us "safe" would not mean providing relief from any external threat as its primary focus, as the most serious threats to the national security of the United States are Blackwater USA and the neoconservative led Republican Party

I'm glad he went on. Obama did a good job and Bill is a major league Douche-Bag.

EZ @ 121:

Folks, you better decide who is going to keep America safe, before it is too late. If you bicker, we might end up with GWB's gestapo ruling or the famous martial law.

My analysis: Obama is interested in becoming the world leader. His speech in Germany resonates that he is out there to make the world one and globally he can be that president. On the other hand, Obama has not proved anything to the American people.

On the other hand, McCain has the experience and will lead us in tough fights with Russia, Syria, Iran, and the ME. The domestic issues are minor; they can be fixed compared to the foreign affairs.

Nothing but white noise. I think your tin-foil hat is on too tight.

I disagree with those who think Obama made a mistake in doing the interview. I think walking into the Lion's den takes courage, and Obama did that with class and grace. O'Reilly's primary audience might not care about those things, and they might not be voting for Obama anyway, but many others watch O'Reilly, or may have watched precisely because Obama was going to be interviewed -- and those folks got a dose of an intelligent man, thoughtful, who is not reckless and/or the bogeyman he has been depicted as. It also showed a candidate who is not afraid to meet what they consider a strong opponent, and who unlike McCain, will not throw a hissy fit and cancel appearances because the interviewer was challenging.

Think of it also from Obama's perspective: he knows he will be treated unfairly, that accusations would fly, that his presence legitimates O'Reilly, and that it is not the friendliest of settings for him. But, he negotiated serious on air time in a network that presents him with an audience otherwise harder to reach, which only hear his message totally distorted if at all, and appears reasonable and not scary as O'Reilly wants to depict him. This does not hurt him with his "base," and he performed well enough to not cost him points and/or attacks from the Press. Now that McCain and Palin have dissed us all and the press, Obama appears much better also -- and that all counts.

My overall impression is that Obama is a thoughtful, committed person, a man of character with leadership ability, unafraid to go toe to toe with a bully, and make a substantial case for himself and for what he has stood for and believes in: unity and reduction of partisanship. The majority of O'Reilly's audience might be nincompoops, but I bet many more saw somebody they had only heard about as a caricature --and were quite surprised.

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Bill, here's a tip. Let your guests finish their points. Otherwise, you are just there to bully people. I have found that most bullies are cowardly simps. You fit that description, Falafal Boy.

The Dems went "yup, yup" to every Bush policies.

Obama comes off well?!? How can you say that?!? He came off as so defensive and weak it was pathetic. He couldn't shut that gasbag O'Reilly up for a second. That arrogant douche had such a puss on it was amazing. I don't know how Obama can keep his cool while looking into that snide, sidelong, chin tipped up, looking down his nose fuck's face and not just smack him. Here, Bill, I wish cancer on YOU. Painful, slow miserable cancer. A cancer that starts at your mouth and then works its way straight to your balls taking every major and minor organ in between with it as it goes. Gee, I wonder how many votes obama would've gained or lost had he said that? Hmm...probably a wash...

" I find it interesting O’Reilly didn’t defend Hannity at all. "

Word inside the FOX News Studios is that O'Reilly and Hannity can't stand each other.

I can't tell you anymore because then I'd have to kill you.